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Vault 114

#fallout 4 #bethesda

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#red dead redemption 2 #rockstar games

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#only fools and horses #lol

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Top 10 Photos taken moments before disaster

#only fools and horses #lol

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love when emails start off with “DO NOT REPLY”. like oh yeah way ahead of you brother

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Okay. I’ll tell you the issue I’m having with Deadpool & Wolverine. Because to be fair this was a much better trailer than the first one, but I’m still nervous due to the MCU factor. Every time I see something MCU related in my Deadpool sequel, I die a little inside, but that’s not the problem (well, not the main problem). Here’s the problem.

EVERYBODY is in on the joke now.

In the first two films, Deadpool is the only one breaking the fourth wall because it’s a coping strategy. His life has gone to shit, so he imagines he’s a fictional character with an audience who’s watching him and supporting him. That’s what grounds the humour. Here, everybody’s making fourth wall jokes now. Wolverine is making quips. Blind Al is trying to think up code words for cocaine to get past the censor. Even the villain is cracking jokes and it all just falls flat because it completely misses the point of Deadpool. Which is not to say other characters can’t be funny. Negasonic Teenage Warhead is funny. Firefist is funny. Domino is funny. But they’re not funny in the same way as Deadpool. They have their own styles of humour because they have their own set of circumstances. Whereas here everybody seems to be operating on Deadpool logic. This is partially because the MCU has had a problem for years of having all their male character sounding exactly the same and where the dialogue is practically interchangeable, but it’s also due to a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes Deadpool work. They see a film that’s self aware and go “Hey. We can be self-aware too. We’ve been doing it for years. We made She-Hulk. Let’s bring in the writers of Bob’s Burgers to add loads of self aware jokes”, without stopping to consider why Deadpool is self aware and what makes it an effective comedy tool. She-Hulk is a prime example of this. That show was painful to sit through, and that’s because the self aware humour and fourth wall jokes serve no purpose other than to make jokes at the expense of the source material, which undermines the rest of the show.

It’s always funny whenever I meet people who say they don’t like Deadpool because it always turns out they mean a version of Deadpool that showed up in an animated show or a video game. Not the canon Deadpool from the comics. The Deadpool that suffered intense trauma and abuse, struggling to cope moving forward. That Deadpool is a compelling character. Without that crucial foundation, he can be annoying and insufferable because there’s nothing to ground the humour or the character. The first two films understood that perfectly. This film on the other hand… I’m not convinced.

#deadpool & wolverine #deadpool #anti marvel #anti mcu #anti disney

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Fallout is renewed for season 2 👍 x

#lucy maclean #maximus #cooper howard #the ghoul #cx404 #dogmeat #fallout #fallout tv series #amazon prime

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You want to know how I know your daddy, don’t you? Let’s just say that everything about your whole little world was decided over 200 years ago. Now you can stay here with him, but when his tin can soldier friends take this place— and they gonna take this place— they will kill you and everybody here. Or you could come meet your makers.

FALLOUT 1.08: “The Beginning”

#lucy maclean #cooper howard #the ghoul #fallout #fallout tv series #amazon prime

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FALLOUT 1.02 — The Target

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FALLOUT S01E02, The Target

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Lucy and Cooper | Height difference

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FALLOUT 1.02

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FALLOUT (2024— ) S1E05 The Past

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This scene demonstrates why I love how Vault-Tec is written as an evil corporation. It's not the usual mustache-twirling, over-the-top villainy you see in other media. It's quiet, subtle, and very realistic, which only serves to make Vault-Tec that much more terrifying.

When Cooper finishes describing how Vault-Tec was responsible for the deaths of countless people, the executive here does two things: a) he makes their deaths about himself (ALL WHILE NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGING THEM!), and b) he makes it about "Product Management."

It really emphasizes the theme that corporations like Vault-Tec and the suits who run them at Vault-Tec only care about the company and its products and NOT the people who use them (or are being used by them).

#cooper howard #bud askins #fallout #fallout tv series #amazon prime

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Cooper Howard -> in Fallout: Episode 3, The Head

#cooper howard #the ghoul #fallout #fallout tv series #amazon prime

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